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The African National Congress lost its political monopoly<\/a> in South Africa for the first time since vanquishing the country\u2019s last white-led regime 30 years ago.<\/p>\n When votes were counted on Saturday, the A.N.C. received only about 40 percent of the vote, a steep drop from the nearly 58 percent that the party won in the 2019 election and far short of winning an absolute majority.<\/p>\n The party, which rose to international acclaim on the shoulders of Nelson Mandela, will now have two weeks to cobble together a government with one or more rival parties. Without an absolute majority, the A.N.C. can no longer handpick the country\u2019s president, and President Cyril Ramaphosa may not have a second term.<\/p>\n One major question is whether the A.N.C. will embrace or shun Jacob Zuma, its former leader, who resigned as president in 2018 because of corruption charges. A party he formed just six months ago won 15 percent of the vote. Here\u2019s what could happen next<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mexican voters awaited results in an election yesterday that will almost certainly conclude with the country electing its first female president<\/a>.<\/p>\n The two main candidates were women: Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist representing the ruling party led by President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, and X\u00f3chitl G\u00e1lvez, a businesswoman on a ticket made up of opposition parties. The contest showcased the immense strides that women, who weren\u2019t even allowed to vote in Mexico until 1953, have made in the country\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n President Biden\u2019s proposal for a truce in Gaza has put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in a bind<\/a>.<\/p>\n With Israel facing growing diplomatic isolation, Netanyahu appears to face a choice between the survival of his hawkish government and a deal to bring hostages home. Hard-right members of Netanyahu\u2019s coalition have said they will abandon it if he accepts the cease-fire before Hamas is destroyed, while centrist leaders have threatened to withdraw their support without a clear path forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Starlink, the satellite internet service, has brought the web to the Marubo, an Indigenous tribe that lives in remote villages in the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n The Marubo and other Indigenous tribes, which have resisted modernity for generations, are now confronting the potential and peril<\/a> of the internet all at once, while debating what it will mean for their identity and culture. See this video<\/a> from my colleague Jack Nicas.<\/p>\n Lives lived:<\/strong> U Tin Oo was a former military leader in Myanmar who turned against his country\u2019s oppressive government and led a pro-democracy movement. He died at 97<\/a>.<\/p>\n Real Madrid 2, Borussia Dortmund 0: <\/strong>Analysis from the Champions League final<\/a>.<\/p>\n Las Vegas Grand Prix: <\/strong>Officials predict a smoother race<\/a> this year after the problems of the inaugural race in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A century after his death, Franz Kafka has become a TikTok star. Known for nightmarish stories like \u201cThe Metamorphosis,\u201d the writer serves as a shorthand for a generation\u2019s growing sense of alienation, my colleague Amanda Hess writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe internet, the very place where we are now expected to craft a self, is also an identity-destabilizing machine,\u201d Hess continues. \u201cWhen Kafka wrote \u2018I have hardly anything in common with myself,\u2019 he could have been describing the experience of confronting one\u2019s own online persona.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMexico poised to elect its first female president<\/h2>\n
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